a baseball card celebration of the dodgers and the infield of my youth.

07 February 2015

a couple packs and a blaster worth of cards

more 2015 topps cards from my recent purchase. these all came from a couple of loose packs and a blaster.

clayton kershaw highlight/checklist

nice.

clayton kershaw league leader (wins)

nice of topps to use a different kershaw photo from that on the checklist above or his base card. no such dice for adrian gonzalez, whose image on the rbi league leader card

is the same as his base

here's andrew heaney

who was a dodger for a few short moments this offseason

eric sogard

this would be a good year to be an a's collector. i was one, once, around 1981.

masahiro tanaka

like evan gattis in my last post, i am left wondering why tanaka gets the future stars foil. it used to be that you graduated from future star status on cards once you made the all-rookie team.

trevor cahill

not a good game face.

i did ok with the inserts from a dodger perspective - i pulled two cards from the jackie robinson story - #3

and #10

plus 1st home run inserts of paul konerko

(need his base final tribute), and yasiel puig

these seemed to be the most prevalent insert. i also pulled matt adams

jason heyward

jose abreu

who also has the future stars/rookie cup thing going on on his base card

here are some archetypes inserts - mark mcgwire

mike trout

cal ripken

and yoenis cespedes

who also shares space with jim rice on the red sox version of the inspired play insert

here's matt harvey and tom terrific on the mets version

i found a fair number of red sox inserts, including the two above. this is a mookie betts robbed card

plus a first pitch from meb keflezighi, marathon winner

the phillies were also represented - this is the only rainbow foil card i pulled, and it's of marlon byrd

this is a jim bunning baseball history insert

i can think of other history being made in the baseball world in 1955

how about a mike schmidt highlight of the season card?

followed by yankees. here's babe ruth on his own highlight of the season card

plus a babe ruth's call your shot game card

this thoroughly confused me, until i discovered that this card is not a game card, just a coupon. the game cards are scratch offs.

from the sultan of swat to the straw that stirs the drink, reggie jackson makes an appearance on a free agent insert

as i hold out hope that steve garvey is on the series 2 checklist. any insert set that honors free agency's anniversary should include andy messersmith, but topps ignored rick monday with their 1965 draft cards last year, so i don't expect to see messersmith. garvey has a better, although very slight, chance.

finally, here's the commemorative 1st home run medallion i pulled. derek jeter

although i would have preferred a base jeter/final tribute card. maybe in the pack i pick up with the 50 cent coupon.

let's trade

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let's trade, part 2

i collect dodgers cards, any and all cards featuring steve garvey, ron cey, dave lopes or bill russell, all topps cards of the players who were featured in the 1978 topps set as dodgers, cards featuring dodger stadium, o-pee-chee variations, cards showing memorial patches and/or armbands, and cards showing the double play turn at second base. i am also currently working on my 1971 topps set. i have a lot of cards to trade!